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HARRY DIFLO, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,731, dated October 1, 1901.

Application filed May 2,1900. Serial No. 15,187. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY DIFLo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Self- Locking Haines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to adjustable selflocking hames of that character adapted to be adjusted to iit collars of different size, whereby the hames are capable of adaptation to use for horses of different size.

The object of the invention is to provide a hame in which the adjustment shall be proportional in alldirections-et-hat is to say, that in the smallest adjustment as to length the hame shall be contracted as to width correspondingly and when adjusted as to greatest length the width shall be commensurate with the greater width of the neck of the horse requiring the longitudinal adjustment.

The invention consists in the parts and combination of parts shown in t-he drawings and herein described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a pair of haines shown as extended to full size, the innerdiagrammatic line showing the smallestadjustment. Thisdiagrammaticline, taken in connection with the full lines, shows the essential feature of my invention--to wit, the lateral contraction and expansion coincident with the longitudinal contraction and expansion, whereby the hames compensate in length and width with the difference in size of the neck of different animals. Fig. 2 is a side view of the hame. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of one side of the hame, showing the means for holding the sections of the hame in adjustment and also the limiting-stud.

The two sections of llames are alike until they meet at the locking-point, at which point they differ in the particular that one section is provided with a housing and locking-dog, while the opposite section is formed with a tongue to telescope the housing and with a recess to receive the locking-dog. I will therefore refer to the sections as a whole as hame 1 and hame 2. Each hame-section 1 and 2 consists of an upper curved portion 3 and a lower hame-section 3f. The upper curved portions 3 are hinged together at the top at 4 by a pivot-bolt 5, on which is secured the loop -iron 6 for the back strap. The curved portions 3 are preferably formed of angled iron to lend rigidity to the sections, and secured to the sections are rein-rings 6. Each section is also provided with a plurality of recesses 7 and a threaded orifice S, located at or near its end, in which is secured a limiting-stop 9. Each lower section 3a is provided with a lower ear 10 and an upper ear 11, between which is pivotally secured a trace-hook 12 by means of a bolt 13.

In order to secure the upper and lower sections 3 and 3 in proper adjustment, the upper end of each lower section is provided with a cross-bar 14, between which and the body of the section 3 passes the lower end of the section 3, which has a longitudinal movement. To secure the two sections together, the crosspiece is provided with a threaded orifice 15, into which is secured a pointed screw 16, which takes into one of the recesses 7 in the sections 3, thus holding the sections fixed together. The screw-stud 9 is of a length to contact with the cross-piece when the sections are extended to a maximum degree, thus preventing the sections from becoming detached from each other. y j

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi- A hame of the character described comprising side sections, each formed of two parts telescopically secured together, crossbars upon the upper ends of the lower parts, the lower ends of the upper parts passing between the said cross-bars and body of the lower parts, screws passing through the cross-bars and adapted to engage one of the recesses, and a screw-stud in the lower end of each upper part arranged to form a stop to contact with said cross-bars, substantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY DIFLO.

Witnesses:

WM. J. BARR, JAMES W. BARR. 

